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1. Rika says she saved Akasaka's life when they meet at the telephone booth. Does she refer to the cut telephone cords? What would have happened to Akasaka? Would the Yamainu have attacked him at the hospital if he had made his call from there and had gone to bed afterwards?

2. She says to him: "If disturbing the surface of the water which reflects the moon means death, maybe a stone should be thrown in." I don't really understand it because throwing a stone in would mean disturbing the water. So it would mean death. But what she says seems to be about avoiding death. By talking about that "stone" I think she means Akasaka who can save her. Is this a wrong translation in the Sound Novel?

She cut the phone cords to stop akasaka on finding about his wife death. Unable to leave Hinamizawa till daytime he would likely gone crazy realizing it was his fault she went to the rooftop. By buying time, lets Ooishi finds out the news and be there for him. Knowing he still has a daughter to keep care of keeps him rooted in sanity.

The analogy about the ripple a reflected moon, is to mean that warning Akasaka about his wife may change things in the future. good karma. Eventually a world comes along where he does go back to tokyo.

How long was Shion confined in St. Lucia? There's some contradiction in the information in the sound novel, I think. First she says she went to that school soon after the dam project was frozen, later she says she had been away only one year.

I haven't read the VN, but I that statement "been away"... could that be referring to her being "away" from school? Considering she had only met Satoshi not long before he disappeared, it has been roughly a year between her being away from school, and the events of June 1986.

Thanks. Sorry for being unclear earlier, but I have been referring to the year of Shouwa 57 (1982), when she just got out of her school. It's then she talks about having been away one year from Okinomiya, not from school.

It's also a bit difficult to tell which year she means when talking about "the dam project being frozen" because in the year of Shouwa 53 (the year Akasaka and Rika met for the first time) it was disrupted because of the kidnapping, one year later (the year the manager was killed) it was officially cancelled.

How exactly that "cat" eyes appear? At first I thought that when someone was in an advanced syndrome level that person would see another person with that eyes and be scared of it. But then in Tatarigoroshi Mion and Rena saw Keiichi (when he went mad at the classroom when he decided to kill Teppei)with that "strange" eyes and said something like "Are you really Maebara Keiichi" and "I never saw eyes like that before". So it doesn't make sense for me. Someone can answer that?

In Onikakushi, they were just there to make the viewer scared of Rena and Mion. Since you're seeing it through the eyes of Keiichi who is paranoid and afraid of them, the girls have cat eyes, because they are the object that is creating fear.

In Tatarigoroshi, they were there to make the viewer scared of Keiichi. At this point Keiichi had decided that he was going to kill somebody. That's pretty scary.

In short:
They're only there when the viewer is supposed to be afraid because cat eyes are cool and scary looking.

In Onikakushi, they were just there to make the viewer scared of Rena and Mion. Since you're seeing it through the eyes of Keiichi who is paranoid and afraid of them, the girls have cat eyes, because they are the object that is creating fear.

In Tatarigoroshi, they were there to make the viewer scared of Keiichi. At this point Keiichi had decided that he was going to kill somebody. That's pretty scary.

In short:
They're only there when the viewer is supposed to be afraid because cat eyes are cool and scary looking.

Spoiler:

But in that moment and in the full Tatarigaroshi we were still seeing things by keiichi's point of view. So it doesn't make sense for us to be scared of keiichi (our point of view).

I think RandomAvatarFan is right. It's just a graphic way to express that someone is dangerous or mad, or the character from whose point of view the story is told thinks the person is scary or crazy. I don't think there is a strict rule about it as you might be thinking.

I think RandomAvatarFan is right. It's just a graphic way to express that someone is dangerous or mad, or the character from whose point of view the story is told thinks the person is scary or crazy. I don't think there is a strict rule about it as you might be thinking.

Spoiler:

But we can't see keiichi's "cat" eyes in the VN. We just know because Rena and Mion says it.